"The creed is very simple, and here is what it is: to believe that there is nothing more beautiful, more courageous, and more perfect than Christ; and there not only isn't, but I tell myself with a jealous love, there cannot be." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'd like to read how their new guidelines define a newborn, and when does a newborn become an infant, and so on. Looks like no child will ever be safe in the brave new world until they're big enough to fight back the attempts to murder them.

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"The creed is very simple, and here is what it is: to believe that there is nothing more beautiful, more courageous, and more perfect than Christ; and there not only isn't, but I tell myself with a jealous love, there cannot be." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Strelets, thought the same thing when I read this article... When will the doctors & parents' authority end, when will the child have the right to say, I do want to live?Imagine, if the sufruge age there is 18, a day before a kid's 18th birthday the parents say, your terminally ill, we're gonna have you euthanised...

Back to the infants though, how does that differ from pulling the plug? Do they just stop life support, or actually inject drugs?

Sorry if mssg doesn't make sense, coming off a major caffine high (5 cups of coffee since 7 this morning) so brain is slightly fried.

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Now where were we? Oh yeah - the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

Back to the infants though, how does that differ from pulling the plug? Do they just stop life support, or actually inject drugs?

I heard on NPR the other day that they give lethal doses of benzodiazepines (sedatives), which stop the respiratory drive. So yes, it's murder.

As a physician, I find this disgusting, just like a lot of other things in modern medicine. Wasn't it Dostoevsky who wrote that "with no God, anything is permissable?"

I don't think it's an accident that this practice started in one of the most secular societies in the world. Man pushed God out of the picture, so that he himself can play God. And clever reasonings and delusions convince him that it's "all good".....

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"Anything that is worth accomplishing cannot be accomplished in a lifetime." - the Holy Fathers

Ever compare the mental states between a child with a terminal illness, and that of an adult with the same condition? The child, despite what he or she is facing, is filled with an enduring optimism in their future and a positive attitude towards life. Adults may well adopt the same mindset, but what's happening in these "mercy" killings is that folks on the outside are projecting their own pessimism and horror at life into the minds of the voiceless. Psychiatrist Victor Frankl wrote at length about this, describing his experiences in the concentration camps in which others on the outside often imagined how horrible life was in those conditions, but he disputed this in saying many were able to find happiness and meaning in life despite (and maybe because of) the conditions they lived in, whereas the most miserable people he treated were frequently those in comfortable settings and in perfect health.

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"The creed is very simple, and here is what it is: to believe that there is nothing more beautiful, more courageous, and more perfect than Christ; and there not only isn't, but I tell myself with a jealous love, there cannot be." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

My grandfather lived in a German Nazi camp for over 2 years (the only thing different from the death camps is that there were no "smoke stacks") and he was one of the most optomistic people I knew.

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Now where were we? Oh yeah - the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...